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'Sent Things'. An exhibition of objects sent to Paul Smith

For the past 10-15 years, an anonymous admirer have been sending different items to fashion designer Paul Smith by post.

Items include a a surfboard, a coffee-pot, a skateboard and lots of other things. These objects were never send in a box, they simply had post stamps on them. Quite amazingly, they still arrived at Paul Smith's store in Covent Garden, London.

The objects were recently exhibited at Stockholm Furniture Fair and Designboom has put together a great post with pictures from the exhibition, including some comments from Sir Paul himself.

www.designboom.com


Crowd-Jamming: Help Douglas Rushkoff come up with a new book title

The author Douglas Rushkuff has asked readers at his website to help him come up with a title for his new book.

The book is a paperback version of "Life Inc: How the world became a corporation and how to take it back" but in order to (re)publish it, Rushkuff's publisher RandomHouse asked him to retitle it.

If you feel inspired and want to help out, you can submit suggestions at Rushkuff's website. The winner will receive books, credits - and lots of community respect.

www.rushkoff.com


Job Opening: Facebook-Reporter for the Danish Broadcasting Corporation

The Danish Broadcast Corporation DR is offering a unique position as social media specialist - or as they call it: "Facebook Reporter".

The main job responsibilities are: (roughly)

• To tell news stories to the Danes via relevant social media
• To qualify DR's news coverage on the web, radio and TV through social media
• To show your colleagues how social media can be used to create dialogue with the Danes

The position is an experiment with a trial period of 6 months. Application deadline: February 15th, 2010.

Full job description (in Danish)


Bike Saddle Cover Ads

On a wet day, bike saddle-cover marketing stunts come in very handy, but usually the ads themselves are pretty forgettable, probably because they fail to relate to the situation they place themselves in.

However, here's finally a relevant one recently found in Copenhagen. The ad promotes a new free service for cyclists offered by the local S-train. The text reads: "Bringing your bike on the S-train is now free of charge..

Bike saddle/seat cover marketing is probably best known in bicycle-friendly cities so in case you are not familiar with the phenomenon, you can find more examples below.

Here + Here + Here + Here + Here


Copenhagen Podride

Copenhagen Podride is a series of podcasts created for passengers on the Copenhagen subway, the S-Trains.

The podcasts contain stories about the urban and sociological development along the S-train lines. Stories are divided into chapters that match the S-stations, thus making it possible for passengers to get a location-specific story as they ride by.

The podcasts are only available in Danish but hopefully they will be produced in English as well as the content seem well suited for tourists and other visitors interested in alternatives to the traditional city tours.

Copenhagen Podride is provided by DSB: S-Train and Copenhagen X. The service is free of charge and available for download on the web, or on your mobile phone via SMS.

www.cphx.dk


Wordr.org: Monoblogging

Wordr is a new micro-blogging service that enables its users to create small text-based posts much like Twitter.

The main difference however, is that Wordr only let users post a single word at a time. The maximum length of a word allowed in Wordr is 23 letters, as in antidisestablishmentarianism. Making up new words is welcomed by the Wordr team.

Word.org is currently running in Alpha mode and you need to a Twitter account to log on. The idea is developed by Frankie Roberto and the design agency Rattle, based in the UK.

http://wordr.org


SMS Enabled Art Toilet at The Danish National Gallery

In conjunction with a music event held outside the The National Gallery in Copenhagen earlier this summer, the gallery introduced a new kind of service: Art Toilets.

Besides being cleaned after each visit, the Art Toilets were equipped with art magazines and posters, thereby turning the trivial and potential unpleasant activity into a somewhat nice and memorable experience.

To access the Art Toilets, users were required to send an SMS to a dedicated number, which in return gave them a virtual toilet token, free of charge.

The phone numbers were collected and later used by the National Gallery to kick start a new SMS service.

Video on Facebook


Your Message Here

As a part of his graduation project, graphic design student Christopher West is inviting you to pay him for wearing a T-shirt with a message of your choice.

In other words, he will be a walking billboard, promoting your message.

Every week a new blank T-shirt is put on auction on eBay. The highest bidder gets to decide the message and the design. Christopher will print it and wear it for a full week.

The idea behind the project is to investigate the medium of printed T-shirts and apart from the project's performative aspect, Christopher West is also producing a publication.

All the T-shirts will be exhibited at the graduation show at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. You can also see them on eBay, where a new one is added every week.

Related: Body Billboardz + VoiceVertising

Auction on ebay.com


Creativity in Crisis

If you're in Copenhagen before March 15, don't miss the exhibition 'Til Vægs' (To The Wall) at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

The recently appointed acting Director Maria Gadegaard was asked to take over amid a turbulent time when there was basically no budget as well as an empty calendar and exhibition space to fill out.

Consequently she turned the problem into an opportunity and invited 40 local artists and asked them to paint and draw directly on the walls, thereby avoiding expenses for travel, transportation, insurance, materials etc. Paint was sponsored by Dyrup (a paint manufacturer) thus further reducing costs.

The result is impressive - like walking through an overdimensional visual book with every page offering something new - and the exhibition has received tons of much needed public as well as critical acclaim.

Image: Snapshot of Ida Kvetny's piece.

www.kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk


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